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Under-fire Whitmarsh soaks up blame for MP4-28
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh has admitted his team took too long to realise the mistakes it made with the MP4-28 and says he takes responsibility for the predicament it now faces. McLaren got its season off to a poor start in Australia, scoring just two points while the car was well over a second off the pace of its rivals. The team has taken a revolutionary approach with its 2013 car in the hope that it would have more development potential than an evolution of last year's race winning MP4-27, but Whitmarsh conceded the team should have seen the problems developing earlier. "Clearly we didn't do a good enough job and there is a lot of analysis of that going on at the...
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